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Express fashion show will take over Monterey Square on Friday evening

By bill dawers On July 10, 2012 · in Arts & Culture, Living Savannah
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Express will be shooting its latest advertising campaign centered on a live, high end Runway Show near Monterey Square this Friday. The event is free and open to the public.
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What do Mary Matalin, James Carville, Cokie Roberts, Archie Manning, Wynton Marsalis, Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond, and three college presidents have in common?

By bill dawers On July 10, 2012 · in Arts & Culture, Economics
They're all from New Orleans. They have also all called for the Times-Picayune to be sold to an investor who pledges to continue printing the paper daily.
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Actor Donal Logue on CBGB in the 1980s and on the perils of not drinking

By bill dawers On July 10, 2012 · in Arts & Culture
Actor Donal Logue's diverse career includes myriad films and television shows, including stints on the series "ER", "Grounded for Life", "Knights of Prosperity", "Life", and "Terriers".
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Actress Ashley Greene: “Savannah is breathtaking”

By bill dawers On July 9, 2012 · in Arts & Culture
Best known for her role in The Twilight Saga, Ashley Greene has the female lead in CBGB -- she's playing Lisa Kristal, daughter of club founder Hilly Kristal (Alan Rickman).

On a positive note: Savannah is breathtaking. Nothing like being in the south on independence day!

— Ashley Greene (@AshleyMGreene) July 4, 2012
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4th of July live music: Velvet Caravan at B. Matthew’s Eatery (photos)

By bill dawers On July 8, 2012 · in Music
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As the night came on and folks began leaving for the fireworks, the quartet played for a teenage girl's birthday. She seemed utterly delighted.
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4th of July live music: Hairy Chest Fest at Taco Abajo

By bill dawers On July 8, 2012 · in Music
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A few photos of here of Dead Yet?, Wet Socks, and Sauna Heat -- just three of the 20 bands.
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Actress Stana Katic thanks Savannah “for bringing the love” during “CBGB” filming

By bill dawers On July 8, 2012 · in Arts & Culture, Living Savannah

What is known as the "Fried Green Tomato"XS twitter.com/Stana_Katic/st…

— Stana Katic (@Stana_Katic) July 7, 2012
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“Stadium vs. Arena” increasingly hot topic in Savannah

By bill dawers On July 8, 2012 · in Living Savannah, Urban Form
Putting an arena and a stadium next to each other is a terrible idea for Savannah. Putting a covered arena on valuable, scenic riverfront property is an even worse idea.
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Another Georgia bank failure, an international fugitive, and another state legislator caught up in banking scandal

By bill dawers On July 8, 2012 · in Economics, Politics
Montgomery Bank & Trust in Ailey (just outside Vidalia), which failed Friday, was "saved" by an investment fund a year and a half ago that turns out to have been fraudulent. One of the directors of the bank also ran the fund, which swindled investors out of millions of dollars. That bank director, Aubrey Lee Price, is now missing and so is the money.
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WSJ: “The Bowery Went Down to Georgia”

By bill dawers On July 6, 2012 · in Arts & Culture, Living Savannah
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The WSJ asks: "The Georgia humidity may be akin to the sticky summers that infect downtown Manhattan, but is Savannah really an acceptable substitute for the infamous stretch of New York asphalt that spawned the Ramones?"
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Pic of Rupert Grint on the plane to Savannah (with added pics in transit and on the street in Savannah)

By bill dawers On July 6, 2012 · in Arts & Culture

Fanpicture ( via heytayl0r on Tumblr) of Rupert Grint on the Airplane. He is official in Savannah now! twitter.com/VoteRupertGrin…

— VoteRupert (@VoteRupertGrint) July 6, 2012
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Savannah celebrates the 4th . . . (photos)

By bill dawers On July 6, 2012 · in Living Savannah
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I already posted a ton of photos from the Savannah Dance Festival flash mob performance on River Street on the 4th of July.
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U.S. economy adds 80,000 jobs in June; unemployment rate unchanged at 8.2%

By bill dawers On July 6, 2012 · in Economics
Sluggish recovery continues.
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Savannah Dance Festival 4th of July flash mob on River Street (79 photos)

By bill dawers On July 5, 2012 · in Arts & Culture, Living Savannah
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One of the highlights of my 4th of July was the 6 p.m. flash mob by the Savannah Dance Festival at Rousakis Plaza on River Street.
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